Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 85 54
Rank change year-on-year -32 -31 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,156 1,863 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.98% 3.28% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.67% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 786 1,047 1,878
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,875 £112,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +6.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,586 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.08% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,463 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,077 £77,500 +10.71% 505
London +7 600 £85,000 -0.87% 222
UK excluding London -69 502 £70,000 +7.69% 365
Work from Home -25 492 £75,000 +11.11% 348
North of England -17 219 £70,000 +14.37% 95
North West -4 122 £68,000 +8.80% 57
South East -95 103 £70,000 - 122
Yorkshire -20 83 £75,000 +22.54% 24
Midlands -21 62 £75,000 +15.38% 50
South West -50 53 £62,500 - 48
West Midlands +13 35 £70,000 +5.66% 29
Scotland -55 31 £66,000 -5.71% 18
East of England -13 29 £77,500 +34.78% 24
East Midlands -29 25 £77,500 +19.23% 21
North East -13 14 £55,200 +5.14% 14
Wales -14 5 £55,200 +10.40% 16
Northern Ireland -12 2 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (2.08%) Apache
2 24 (2.08%) Confluence
3 23 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.87%) Appian
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
5 10 (0.87%) JBoss
6 8 (0.69%) nginx
7 7 (0.61%) IIS
7 7 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.087%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.087%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.087%) Liferay
11 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (1.90%) Maya
2 13 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.78%) Endur
2 9 (0.78%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Shopify
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.087%) Actimize
8 1 (0.087%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.087%) Quorum
8 1 (0.087%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.087%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 613 (53.03%) AWS
2 557 (48.18%) Azure
3 191 (16.52%) GCP
3 191 (16.52%) Serverless
4 156 (13.49%) SaaS
5 125 (10.81%) GitHub
6 124 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (6.83%) Amazon S3
9 73 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (5.28%) PaaS
12 58 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
14 47 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (3.55%) IaaS
16 38 (3.29%) Power Platform
17 36 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
19 32 (2.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.87%) HTTP
1 10 (0.87%) Network Security
2 9 (0.78%) AMQP
3 4 (0.35%) Internet
3 4 (0.35%) WAN
4 3 (0.26%) Broadband
4 3 (0.26%) Multicast
5 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.17%) LAN
5 2 (0.17%) SNMP
5 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.087%) Firewall
6 1 (0.087%) MQTT
6 1 (0.087%) TCAP
6 1 (0.087%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (14.53%) NoSQL
2 165 (14.27%) PostgreSQL
3 146 (12.63%) MongoDB
4 137 (11.85%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 61 (5.28%) DynamoDB
7 56 (4.84%) MySQL
8 44 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (2.51%) Redis
11 26 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.99%) Big Data
13 22 (1.90%) Power BI
13 22 (1.90%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.38%) Tableau
15 15 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (1.21%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.21%) DB2
17 11 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 161 (13.93%) Git
2 123 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 57 (4.93%) JIRA
4 46 (3.98%) GitLab
5 43 (3.72%) JUnit
6 42 (3.63%) Selenium
7 34 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 28 (2.42%) JMeter
9 27 (2.34%) TeamCity
10 26 (2.25%) Mockito
11 20 (1.73%) Bitbucket
11 20 (1.73%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (1.04%) CircleCI
13 12 (1.04%) Maven
14 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.78%) Postman
15 8 (0.69%) git-flow
15 8 (0.69%) LoadRunner
16 7 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 339 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 323 (27.94%) Finance
3 109 (9.43%) Banking
4 107 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (9.00%) Law
6 70 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 60 (5.19%) Retail
8 47 (4.07%) Games
9 44 (3.81%) Financial Institution
10 32 (2.77%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.68%) French Language
11 31 (2.68%) Marketing
12 30 (2.60%) Dutch Language
12 30 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (2.34%) Billing
15 26 (2.25%) Back Office
16 23 (1.99%) Legal
17 22 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (1.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 394 (34.08%) Developer
2 256 (22.15%) Senior
3 239 (20.67%) Architect
4 191 (16.52%) Software Engineer
5 180 (15.57%) Lead
6 118 (10.21%) Solutions Architect
7 102 (8.82%) Java Developer
8 99 (8.56%) .NET Developer
9 83 (7.18%) Senior Developer
10 82 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 61 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (4.93%) Java Engineer
12 57 (4.93%) Lead Developer
13 49 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 44 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 40 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (3.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 40 (3.46%) Lead Architect
16 36 (3.11%) Java Software Engineer
17 34 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (26.30%) .NET
2 275 (23.79%) React
3 245 (21.19%) RESTful
4 196 (16.96%) Spring
5 194 (16.78%) REST
6 176 (15.22%) Kafka
7 171 (14.79%) Spring Boot
8 138 (11.94%) Node.js
9 137 (11.85%) AngularJS
10 123 (10.64%) .NET Core
11 100 (8.65%) HTML
12 75 (6.49%) .NET Framework
13 71 (6.14%) ASP.NET
14 69 (5.97%) CSS
15 64 (5.54%) ASP.NET Web API
16 58 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
17 55 (4.76%) Entity Framework
18 53 (4.58%) Middleware
19 52 (4.50%) Hibernate
19 52 (4.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 304 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 176 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (10.55%) Enterprise Software
4 96 (8.30%) Product Ownership
5 51 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.85%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.68%) Virtual Team
9 28 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.08%) AI Agents
11 24 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 23 (1.99%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.90%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.47%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.47%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.30%) IoT
15 15 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 12 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.84%) Linux
2 27 (2.34%) Windows
3 21 (1.82%) Android
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.087%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (51.73%) Agile
2 533 (46.11%) CI/CD
3 491 (42.47%) DevOps
4 356 (30.80%) Software Engineering
5 266 (23.01%) Full-Stack Development
6 264 (22.84%) Containerisation
7 250 (21.63%) AI
8 235 (20.33%) Mentoring
9 227 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 203 (17.56%) Event-Driven
11 188 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 174 (15.05%) Computer Science
13 163 (14.10%) Roadmaps
14 159 (13.75%) TDD
15 155 (13.41%) Scrum
16 152 (13.15%) Test Automation
17 142 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
18 137 (11.85%) Clean Code
19 130 (11.25%) SDLC
20 120 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 383 (33.13%) Java
2 299 (25.87%) C#
3 289 (25.00%) Python
4 276 (23.88%) SQL
5 258 (22.32%) JavaScript
6 200 (17.30%) TypeScript
7 60 (5.19%) Go
8 36 (3.11%) Shell Script
9 26 (2.25%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.99%) C++
11 20 (1.73%) PHP
12 18 (1.56%) C
13 17 (1.47%) Bash
13 17 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 15 (1.30%) Ruby
15 14 (1.21%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.21%) Rust
16 7 (0.61%) Bicep
17 6 (0.52%) Delphi
17 6 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (17.82%) Degree
2 129 (11.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 69 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 67 (5.80%) AWS Certification
6 59 (5.10%) Master's Degree
7 43 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
8 39 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.78%) PMP
14 7 (0.61%) CISM
14 7 (0.61%) CISSP
15 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
18 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.79%) QA
2 24 (2.08%) GDPR
3 22 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.95%) IFRS
5 11 (0.95%) SLA
6 9 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 9 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.78%) NIST
6 9 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.69%) EMIR
8 5 (0.43%) NCSC
9 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.35%) WCAG
10 3 (0.26%) SEPA
11 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.17%) PSD2
11 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 359 (31.06%) Docker
2 15 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.087%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 342 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 171 (14.79%) Terraform
3 45 (3.89%) Grafana
4 42 (3.63%) Ansible
5 27 (2.34%) Kibana
6 17 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.12%) Argo
9 5 (0.43%) Puppet
10 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Rancher
13 1 (0.087%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.087%) Nagios
Vendors
1 187 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.54%) Oracle
3 29 (2.51%) Guidewire
4 27 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.25%) Google
5 26 (2.25%) SAP
6 22 (1.90%) Splunk
7 21 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (1.04%) Duck Creek
13 11 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.95%) IBM
14 10 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.87%) Software AG
15 9 (0.78%) Red Hat